American Doctor Who fans, rejoice: The long-running time travel show will indeed be filming in the U.S. this fall, for a story in which the Doctor and his friends visit Utah in the late 1960s... and then the Oval Office.

Spoilers below...

According to a press release from BBC America, next month the Doctor Who team will do some actual filming in Utah for a special two-parter co-commissioned by the BBC and BBC America. It's "a story set in the late ‘60s in which the Doctor, Amy and Rory find themselves on a secret summons that takes them on an adventure from the desert in Utah - right to the Oval Office itself." And River Song will be along for the ride as well. Will the president be LBJ or Richard Nixon?

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The press release quotes showrunner Steven Moffat as saying:

The Doctor has visited every weird and wonderful planet you can imagine, so he was bound get round to America eventually! And of course every Doctor Who fan will be jumping up and down and saying he's been in America before. But not for real, not on location - and not with a story like this one! Oh, you wait!

If Nixon does indeed turn up in this story, who do you think they should get to play him?